Re: Listing FreeBSD extentions as such in utilities

[Tom Rhodes <trhodes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:39:32 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2005-10-31 12:14, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > %cvs diff -u date.1
> > Index: date.1
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/date/date.1,v
> > retrieving revision 1.72
> > diff -u -r1.72 date.1
> > --- date.1      13 Feb 2005 22:25:09 -0000      1.72
> > +++ date.1      31 Oct 2005 17:11:53 -0000
> > [...]
> > +.Xr sh 1
> > +shell understands environment variables such as
> > +.Dl LC_TIME=C .
> >  .Sh HISTORY
> >  A
> >  .Nm
> 
> I was under the impression that locale settings are understood by the
> utilities themselves too, e.g. in commands like:
> 
> 	  env LC_FOO=xxx date

That works too.  I was just attempting to illustrate a point,
without bloating the manual page.  Guess I could add
"date" at the end there.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes